Consider this as well
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I hope this helps:
For personal CCW, I have, both the Beretta 40cal and Sig 9mm listed below.
Both guns CCW very easily, comfy, and do not paint, because, depending where I'm carrying for whatever conditions I'm in, I know what I can do, and what I can't, without risk of painting, and staying stealth is what is all about, bar-none IMHO.
Personally, as you can see, I too, have a 380 Sig, but I bought that gun for 2 reasons, less recoil for my wife's first gun and experience of less recoil, than some of the bigger 9mm gr loads, as well as size. Once she gets past the learning stage, with fear, etc., I'm sure she'll be able to move up to the 9mm.
Then the 380, my/our Bug-gun, is gonna be just that, for backup, as I can tell you, with others, it holds, least ours, only 7 in the mag max, and one chambered, vs 10 rounds in my 9mm and one chambered.
And that's if your limited, like here in Calif., magazine loads 10 max. But that still left 2 issues, less ammo, per magazine, and less impact of the smaller gr/weight bullets of the 380. Making this short, one gun will require, if your placement shots are not on the money, and that is key, more bullets to stop the threat, and the bigger 9mm, will have more punch, and you'll have 3 more bullets to shoot, if it goes pure south, let alone, the non-skill required to pop-out 9mm mag and pop one back in, vs my 380, as it has first, a heel release for the mag, and second, it doesn't just go straight in. Nope, you have to angle it just right, then it straightens up and pops in. Time is key when your life is literally in your hand/s, and, at hand for that moment.
Now here's the real other issue to think about, I can't speak for the 2 choice guns you are looking at, but I can tell you that of any of my guns, with the exception of the Sig 380, breakdowns, weather in the field, at the shooting range, or at home, for cleaning, inspections, upkeep you will do with your gun, is a mind-maze of learning muscle-motor-skills with the 380, (again, least mine) as opposed to the simplicity of the others, simple, fast, no learning curve to speak of, and no muscle, motor-skills, are needed for most 9mm, and up, semi's.
I know other 380's that have the same weird, breakdown, and putting them back together issues, that I speak of.
Make sure you at least have the gun salesman show you/demonstate the breakdown and putting back together both, and you try breaking down and putting them together in front of him, after he shows you how, and note his time on each, and your time and effort for each.
Then your decision will be even more clear IMHO.
Personally, I'd point you away from the 380, and at the 9mm.. bar-none
Good luck,
LS
